HomeI was just reading a news article on MSNBC and found a noticeable flub that I can't believe wasn't caught before it was published, or edited after. How often do you see misspellings or errors in grammar when reading the news?
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How often do you find spelling and grammatical errors in print?
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How often do you find spelling and grammatical errors in print?
by Kral Thu Jul 14, 2011 4:32 pm
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Re: How often do you find spelling and grammatical errors in print?
by CeCe Thu Jul 14, 2011 4:53 pm
It's happening more & more lately. When it's people just posting online it's not as much of a big deal but when it's professional journalism there's no excuse.
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by RedBedroom Thu Jul 14, 2011 5:28 pm
CeCe, I agree that is happening more and more in professional news stories. I am actually seeing it a lot in news stories from local news affiliates. I guess they are so fast to put the printed stories online, they are not even bothering to be thorough.
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Re: How often do you find spelling and grammatical errors in print?
by captainbryce Thu Jul 14, 2011 9:06 pm
Well, first I noticed that you ended the first sentence with a preposition (ie: after). Then I recognized that you had a sentence redundancy (ie: "news article"). And finally I realized that you had the unnecessary word "noticeable" in your sentence. If it wasn't "noticeable" then you wouldn't have found it.Kral wrote:I was just reading a news article on MSNBC and found a noticeable flub that I can't believe wasn't caught before it was published, or edited after. How often do you see misspellings or errors in grammar when reading the news?
Of course, I'm just being a dick because it's fun. But yes, I tend to notice grammatical errors and spelling all the time when reading the news.
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Re: How often do you find spelling and grammatical errors in print?
by Shale Fri Jul 15, 2011 12:44 am
It's not just the Web news but actually what is in print. Here there are bilingual ppl who haven't completely mastered English and I have been noticing those errors.
Like a foto caption describing a mouse but said "a mice." (English is a tricky language - just glad I am native to it, would hate to learn it as a second language.)
Others are just mistakes that a proof reader woulda caught but they don't hire proofreaders any more. So like everything else in this shitty economy, get used to poor quality as more cutbacks destroy what commerce is hanging on.
Like a foto caption describing a mouse but said "a mice." (English is a tricky language - just glad I am native to it, would hate to learn it as a second language.)
Others are just mistakes that a proof reader woulda caught but they don't hire proofreaders any more. So like everything else in this shitty economy, get used to poor quality as more cutbacks destroy what commerce is hanging on.
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Re: How often do you find spelling and grammatical errors in print?
by RedBedroom Fri Jul 15, 2011 12:55 am
captainbryce wrote:Well, first I noticed that you ended the first sentence with a preposition (ie: after). Then I recognized that you had a sentence redundancy (ie: "news article"). And finally I realized that you had the unnecessary word "noticeable" in your sentence. If it wasn't "noticeable" then you wouldn't have found it.Kral wrote:I was just reading a news article on MSNBC and found a noticeable flub that I can't believe wasn't caught before it was published, or edited after. How often do you see misspellings or errors in grammar when reading the news?
Of course, I'm just being a dick because it's fun. But yes, I tend to notice grammatical errors and spelling all the time when reading the news.
I'll give it to ya'....you were just being a dick. You did find grammatical errors, though, that a lay person would have not spotted. So, kudos on the editor tutorial...but picking at a message board post makes you look a bit like you have too much time on your hands....
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by TSJFan4Ever Fri Jul 15, 2011 3:21 am
I find them every now and then. I think you're right about how sometimes they're too fast to print things out. I love catching news reporters making errors, or bloopers, esp. when the rest of the cast roles with it.
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Re: How often do you find spelling and grammatical errors in print?
by captainbryce Fri Jul 15, 2011 6:05 pm
Relax, I was just having a bit of fun there. It was my tongue-and-cheek way of saying YES to the question. No ill intent was meant by that (in case that wasn't made clear).RedBedroom wrote:captainbryce wrote:Well, first I noticed that you ended the first sentence with a preposition (ie: after). Then I recognized that you had a sentence redundancy (ie: "news article"). And finally I realized that you had the unnecessary word "noticeable" in your sentence. If it wasn't "noticeable" then you wouldn't have found it.
Of course, I'm just being a dick because it's fun. But yes, I tend to notice grammatical errors and spelling all the time when reading the news.
I'll give it to ya'....you were just being a dick. You did find grammatical errors, though, that a lay person would have not spotted. So, kudos on the editor tutorial...but picking at a message board post makes you look a bit like you have too much time on your hands....
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Re: How often do you find spelling and grammatical errors in print?
by Kral Mon Jul 18, 2011 8:18 pm
captainbryce wrote:Well, first I noticed that you ended the first sentence with a preposition (ie: after). Then I recognized that you had a sentence redundancy (ie: "news article"). And finally I realized that you had the unnecessary word "noticeable" in your sentence. If it wasn't "noticeable" then you wouldn't have found it.Kral wrote:I was just reading a news article on MSNBC and found a noticeable flub that I can't believe wasn't caught before it was published, or edited after. How often do you see misspellings or errors in grammar when reading the news?
Of course, I'm just being a dick because it's fun. But yes, I tend to notice grammatical errors and spelling all the time when reading the news.
Petty and not funny.
I was talking about grammatical errors on news articles made by professional journalists and uncaught by editors, not messages posted by random people on an Internet message board.
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